October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
842 pages
19h 14m
English
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Chapter 10. Seeing Double
Chapter 10. Reusing Content
An SVG file is a structured description of a graphic that can be organized into logical parts and groups. An important consequence of this structure is that you can reuse the same content in multiple contexts without having to repeat all the information used to create that graphic. Symbols, icons, and other repeated motifs can be defined once, then used again and again.
This chapter examines the key structural SVG elements that allow you to copy content defined elsewhere into your graphic.
When it comes to reusing content, there are two distinct strategies used in SVG. On the one hand, you can reuse entire images, embedding the complete graphic in your SVG similar to how an <img> element embeds an image in an HTML page. On the other hand, you can reuse individual SVG shapes or groups, from another file or another part of the same file.
With the SVG <image> element, you can embed not only SVG files but also raster image formats. This allows an SVG to include photos and other graphics that cannot effectively be represented with vector drawing elements. Regardless of whether an embedded image was originally SVG or not, when you embed it as an image, it is treated as an indivisible element. It can be manipulated with graphical effects, but its component parts are inaccessible to styles or scripts from the main document.
In contrast, when you duplicate SVG content with a <use> element, you duplicate the vector graphics instructions ...
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